Monday, March 13, 2006 - Posts

HARDWARE: RAID Arrays explained good article!

I've been using RAID for several years now (bulk of the time after I purchased a P4B533-E back in 2001 or maybe 2002) with IDE RAID 0 (I know, not the safest, but I was willing to gamble!) Right now i'm on an insane RAID 5 array on my P5WD2-Premium, with hard-disks being very cheap its very easy to setup RAID arrays with most motherboards, Bjorn3D has an article going into depth about all the RAID configurations available for now and very indepth analysis of each config, easy to read and very nicely written. Read RAID: A Guide For All.

On a side note, if your after a new drive, the Western Digital Raptor X 150Gb (10,000RPM) with 16Mb cache flies on RAID 0, i've got two hooked up onto the secondary SATA controller (SiliconImage) of the P5WD2-Premium, eventually I'm considering moving that to the Intel Controller and having Windows installed on it and having all the important stuff on RAID 5 config I have now. If you want ultra-fast drives (and sexy too) get a Raptor X from Western Digital. A bit pricey, but worth it.

LIFE: Essendon to Hawthorn in 28mins (via Prahran) on labour Day at peak-hour morning traffic times...insane!

[Applies to Melbournians...]

I woke up at 8:00am today to get to uni at around 10:00'ish (I take 15mins to get ready - most of that is taken up by trying to find matching pairs of socks, if you see me without socks, i gave up the search;-) I'm not one of those guys who spends time on how good he looks... quick shower, slap on something and out the door...)

I get on the freeway today and its EMPTY! honestly, there was hardly any cars on the tullamarine freeway, usually in the mornings its packed (due to the merge with the Calder) and just that part from Melrose Drive to Mt Alexandar Road takes 5-10mins(my style of driving), I did that in under 2mins today, then theres the trek to Kings Road in the city, usually burns up the bulk of 45mins-1hr, did that (again mystyle of driving - no CityLink) in 16mins, then from Prahran to Glenferrie took around 10mins (I was stuck behind a tram for most of the trip).

And this was on a public holiday - which Swinburne students dont get off for some reason, maybe other uni's dont either? Usually this treck takes me atleast 1hr 30mins (again with my style of driving, using "Intelli-Lane-Switching":D) now if only it was like this every day(Traffic that is)!

that is all...